Despite his boyish looks, 30-year-old Ben Grundy has been a constant feature in high stakes online games and on the European tournament circuit for many years now. Having had his interest in poker piqued by chance when neighbour Mansour Matloubi won the 1990 World Series of Poker Main Event, he gradually moved up the levels until a bankroll-boosting deep run at the EPT Grand Final in 2005. Sponsorship from Betfair followed, but he recently relinquished it in favour of a Badbeat deal, where he’s now bankrolled to pit his expert pot-limit Omaha skills against some of the best players in the world at nosebleed stakes.